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Leading infection-prevention authorities recommend 1 type of skin prepping agent over all others.
False. The clinical debate over the effectiveness of different antiseptic solutions continues, with neither the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention nor the Association of periOperative
Registered Nurses nor other agencies or organizations definitively
recommending chlorhexidine gluconate (CHG) or povidoneiodine products for all cases.
"No studies have adequately assessed the comparative effects of
these pre-operative skin antiseptics on SSI risk in well-controlled,
operation-specific studies," says the evidence-based recommendations endorsed by the CDC in its Healthcare Infection Control
Practices Advisory Committee's 1999 surgical site infection preven-
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